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intel HDA audio

Looks like there's an ALSA issue with intel HDA audio. The kernel is built with the driver, and it works perfectly fine under intrepid, but there is no sound in BT4b (alsaconf is also lacking). Any ideas?

Looks like there's an ALSA issue with intel HDA audio. The kernel is built with the driver, and it works perfectly fine under intrepid, but there is no sound in BT4b (alsaconf is also lacking). Any ideas?

Without trying all the solutions,don't put the HCL entry in Non-working hardware.this section denotes that particular hardware is not working at all,after all sort of testing & you are still troubleshooting the things,so its not appropriate section to post this problem.next time post such questions in newbie area.

at present still not working, going to add newest alsa when i get a bit more free time and see what happens then... however, without modification to the live image, it doesnt seem to work on the hp 1183cl

So i had to install the newest alsa-driver alsa-lib and alsa-util (manually though) and alsaconf is part of those drivers. Ran alsaconf, it set up my card, and voila - everything works. Given that we have the repo and package management, maybe its a good idea to add this to the repository as well as the final build of BT4? Newer drivers can't really hurt for something like sound, right?

or you could try alsaconfig then alsamixer to raise the sound before updating alsa ??. The trouble with these cards is there's a few different manuf of this card and kernel drivers can conflict if you enable all the cards.

Raise the PCM volume to around 70 percent and then set the master as your main channel if not you can get distorted sound issues too.